Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-02-18
A Bold Burglar Caught.

inspector Byrnes has made public the
details of the charge on which George
or Gully" Lockwood. the well.known
safe burglar. was arrested on Saturday
and locked up at Police Headquarters.
Having got tired of trying to evade the
New York police, Lockwood made a
little trip down South and cleverly
cracked the safe of Jamison's banking
house in Luray. Page county, Va. On
January %, Inspector Byrnes received
a telegram from E. ]. Armstrong, Com
monwealth Attorney of Lursy, as fol-
lows:
We have arrested a man here to-day for
safe burglary and found box OF burglars tools
in his house ready for expressage and direct
ed, per Adams Express, to "George Griffin,
Hogan's Hotel Washington and Christopher
streets. New York" Watch Griffin.
Commonwealth Attorney Armstrong
followed his telegram by letter giving
particulars of the robbery, which was a
very ingenious one.
About the middle Of January, c. O..
Rhodes, Luray citizen, hired a small
vacant house next to JamisOn's bank
and occupied it in company with a
stranger in the town, short, thickset
man of about 40 years, whose chief Pc
culiarity was a bright red moustache
and red hair. They pretended to keep
a newspaper and cigar store. The
sandy-haired stranger, who went by the
name of George Griffin, often visited
the bank to get change and on other
slight pretexts, and got to be quite fa-
miliar with several of the clerks. Thurs
day, Jan. ~, was market day, when the
people came from the neighboring towns
to make purchases, and on such days a
large amount of money was likely to be
in the bank safe. On the following
morning, when the cashier got there he
found the safe open and all the money
gone. The amount In cash happened
to be not more than 81, 200, as the bank
had made heavy loan just before the
close of Thursdays business. The lock
of the safe bad been forced by powerful
im plements, and the work was evident
ly that of an experienced burglar.
The mode of entering the place adopt.
ed by the burglars was not so clear,
however, and for an hour or two the
officials were perplexed. The window g
and doors were safely secured and the
watchman outside had heard no noise.
At last it was discovered that passage
had been cut underground from the
neighboring house and the floor of the
bank bored through from below. Rhodes
and his partner were at once sought for
but both had fed, the box of burglars
tools being the only property left in the
house. Rhodes was arrested later in
the day and charged with being an
sccomplice in the burglary.
BY the advice of Inspec tor Byrnes the
Luray authorities took the burglars
tools out of the box, filed 1t with stones
and shipped it to the address in New
York. Then Detectives Mangin and
Mcclure watched Hogan's saloon to see
who called for the trunk. The consignee
had evidently been apprised that it was
dangerous to call for the box, for he
kept out of the way. The detectives
found, however, that Lockwood, whose
description tallies exactly with that OF
the Luray stranger, had made Hogsn's
his rendezvous at intervals, and they
got on his track. He was found at the
lodging house, No. 76 West Third street.
and the Luray officials were notified to
send some one to identify him.
Lockwood has long record as safe
breaker. having been several times 10
State prisons and the penitentiary. The
device Of entering place by boring
through the floor is not a new one with
him, he having stolen $500 from saloon
in Henry street in that way five years
ago.-Nsp York Star.
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